You're invited to a workshop and networking event on Friday, June 24, 2022, hosted by The Maine Geospatial Institute of the University of Maine System and funded by a grant from the Maine Space Grant Consortium.  

This workshop will showcase Maine's current remote sensing projects and expand collaborations with higher education, community, industry, and K-12 partners. There will also be a discussion on developments around the Maine Spaceport.

Registration open now. The MGI website will be updated with a schedule and featured speakers list in late May.

Event Date: Friday, June 24, 2022

Location: In-person, University of Southern Maine Wishcamper Center in Portland, with Zoom as an option
Time: 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (tentative)
Light refreshments will be served. 

On May 11, nearly 30 people attended the MEGUG Drone Mini-conference held at Brunswick Landing. Five great presentations on a wide range of drone and UAV related topics were followed by a tour of the UMaine Augusta Aviation training facility, led by Dan Leclair, and we wound up the day with Mappy Hour at Flight Deck Brewing. See photos from the afternoon on Facebook!

The Maine Geospatial Institute would like your input on a Professional Masters degree in GIS (MGIS), currently in development through the UMaine system: Survey link

The MGIS program is designed to fill in a gap in the educational pathways available to professionals in GIS, geospatial, and allied fields (emergency response, forestry, planning, surveyors, etc.). Well-established undergraduate and graduate programs already exist, but there is a need for a Maine-based curriculum that accommodates those already working in the geospatial field and looking for ways to advance their education and career prospects. MGI is looking for input on the content and format of this program that would best serve Maine GIS/geospatial professionals who might be interested in the MGIS degree program.

Survey available here.

We have a new address! Please update your records:

Maine GIS User Group
190 US Rte 1 PMB 243
Falmouth, ME 04105

Missed one of our virtual lunch & learn events?  Follow us on YouTube and you can watch them here or share with colleagues:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6I2va8RxUSPJk1oV8f9T2w/videos

Please join us on June 10 as we welcome Claire Enterline of the Maine Department of Marine Resources and Dr. Tora Johnson of UMaine at Machias for a virtual lunch & learn event!

Claire Enterline will present the background and broad organization of the Maine Climate Council, and the timeline associated with the activities of the supporting Working Groups. She will outline the Coastal and Marine Working Group strategies, highlighting those with mapping and spatial components, and discuss how they will contribute to the Council's overarching goals. Dr. Johnson will discuss the work of the Community Resilience Working Group, review and answer questions about their recommendations as they relate to the geospatial data and issues, and outline next steps. 

Wednesday, June 10, 12:00 - 1:00 PM

Registration info

Join us as we welcome Claire Kiedrowski from the Maine GeoLibrary. Claire will give an overview of the orthoimagery and LiDAR programs for the state, and an update on what geospatial data we can expect in 2020. Landcover was added to our list!

Thursday May 21st, from Noon to 12:45pm

Watch the archived recording

From our partners at the Maine Municipal Association:

Due to the precautions being taken surrounding COVID-19, MMA will not be holding any training events or meetings for at least 8 weeks, which means that the Municipal Technology and New Energy Conference has been postponed. It has been rescheduled for Tuesday, December 8th at the Augusta Civic Center.

If you had already registered for the conference, you will automatically be registered for the new event date. However, if you cannot attend on that date and wish to cancel, please email wsreg@memun.org. There will be no cancellation fee imposed for those needing to cancel due to the date change. Cancelled registrations will be refunded if pre-paid.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.

In light of the rapidly developing COVID-19 situation, we are postponing the MEGUG Lightning Talks event originally scheduled for later this month. A big thank you to Frontier in Brunswick for working with us on this reschedule.

MEGUG Lightning Talks will be held Wednesday, June 17 at Frontier in Brunswick. A reminder: this event is free but RSVP is required. Registration is open and we will send reminders and more details as the time draws closer.

RSVP: https://megug.org/event-3792703

The Maine GIS User Group is partnering with the Maine Municipal Association for the Maine Municipal Technology & New Energy Conference.  This year’s event is Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at the Augusta Civic Center.

If you are interested in presenting at the Maine Municipal Technology conference in our GIS track please contact Judy Colby-George as soon as possible.   We are looking for unique and interesting talks focused on GIS for municipalities.  Ideally your talk would feature some new technology or innovation that would be of interest to municipalities but we are open to most anything GIS.  Talks should be 30 minutes, or you can put together a panel discussion that would be a 60 minute slot.  We are flexible, so feel free to contact Judy with any ideas you think would be interesting.

If you are interested in sponsorship of the 2020 MMA Technology conference, please visit the sponsorship registration page.